Zimapán Dam Will Leave 900,000 People without Water Due to Suspension of the Aqueduct Ii System

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The National Water Commission (Conagua) advanced the beginning of the release of the Zimapán Dam for this Friday, September 5, from 8:00 in the morning, a maneuver that has already begun to generate effects on the water supply in Querétaro. The released flow rate is 500 cubic meters per second, quantity that is discharged directly into the Moctezuma River and that reaches the secondary dam of the Aqueduct II System. This flow drags mud and veget…

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The Querétaro government called on the population to make careful and responsible use of the water, as well as to store and save the liquid before the blurring of the Zimapán dam, which will cause scarcity in 336 colonies of the metropolitan area.

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The secretary of government of Corregidora, Cristina Fernández de Cevallos, reported that from this Friday 5 September temporary cuts of drinking water will be recorded in various municipalities of the state, including Corregidor, due to a controlled blur of the dam of Zimapán. Presa Zimapán, to the limit of its capacity Fernández de Cevallos explained that, after the intense rains recorded in the center of the country, the dam of Zimapán exceed…

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In Zimapán, Hidalgo mayor Hermilo Trejo "ni por cuerdo"Ricardo MontoyaThe State Water Commission (CEA) of Querétaro announced almost midnight Wednesday that, by order of the Conagua and the CFE, the floodgates of the Zimapán dam will be opened this Friday, which will force to stop the operation of Aqueduct II and will leave some 300 communities of Querétaro, Corregidor and El Marqués without water for at least ten days.The measure, justified by …